Tour of Belgium - 2.3

Belgium, May 21-25, 2003

2002 results Stage List Preview Start List Past winners

The Stages

Stage 1 - May 21: Oostende-Oostende, 176.5 km
Stage 2 - May 22: Oostende-Knokke-Heist, 172,5 km
Stage 3 - May 23: Knokke-Heist-Haacht, 224 km
Stage 4 - May 24: Mechelen ITT, 20.6 km
Stage 5 - May 25: Mechelen-Liege-Ans, 201 km

Preview

Held over the five days between Wednesday, May 21 and Sunday, May 25 is the second edition of the relaunched Tour of Belgium, a UCI 2.3 stage race. Held over five stages and 795 km, the race starts in the west part of Flanders and gradually moves south east over the country, eventually finishing in Liege (Ans) on Sunday. The format is three flat road stages, one individual time trial, and a final hilly stage.

All of the Belgian teams will take part in the race, including strong squads from Quick.Step (VDB, Boonen, Museeuw, Knaven) and Lotto-Domo (Van Petegem, Merckx, Baguet, Van Dijk). Both Dutch teams Rabobank and BankGiroLoterij will take part, along with a handful of French teams, German team Telekom, Italian squad Fassa Bortolo, and US Postal-Berry Floor. The latter will be without top man Victor Hugo Peña, who could not enter Belgium due to visa problems. However the team will feature Cyclingnews diarist Floyd Landis, who is on the mend after a hip operation and is looking forward to getting into some European competition.

Start List

Bankgiroloterij Cycling Team          Quick Step-Davitamon
 
1 Bart Voskamp (Ned)                  11 Johan Museeuw (Bel)
2 Rik Reinerink (Ned)                 12 Frank Vandenbroucke (Bel)
3 Bert Hiemstra (Ned)                 13 Tom Boonen (Bel)
5 Jans Koerts (Ned)                   14 Servais Knaven (Ned)
6 Matthé Pronk (Ned)                  15 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel)
7 Bram Schmitz (Ned)                  16 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun)
9 Jan Van Velzen (Ned)                17 Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel)
10 Gerben Löwik (Ned)                 18 Michael Rogers (Aus)
 
Lotto-Domo                            Landbouwkrediet-Colnago
 
21 Peter Van Petegem (Bel)            31 Tom Steels (Bel)
22 Axel Merckx (Bel)                  32 Ludo Dierckxsens (Bel)
23 Serge Baguet (Bel)                 33 Claudio Lucchini (Ita)
24 Stefan Van Dijck (Ned)             34 Marc Streel (Bel)
25 Leon Van Bon (Ned)                 35 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu)
26 Nico Eeckhout (Bel)                38 Bert De Waele (Bel)
28 Glenn D'hollander (Bel)            39 Yuri Mitlushenko (Ukr)
29 Leif Hoste (Bel)                   40 Wesley Van Speybroeck (Bel)
 
Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone      US Postal-Berry Floor
 
41 Nico Mattan (Bel)                  51 Roberto Heras Hernandez (Spa)
42 Jo Planckaert (Bel)                52 Floyd Landis (USA)
43 Peter Farazijn (Bel)               53 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned)
44 Chris Peers (Bel)                  54 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus)
45 Robert Hayles (GBr)                55 Pavel Padrnos (Cze)
47 Tom Flammang (Lux)                 58 Matthew White (Aus)
49 Hayden Roulston (NZl)              59 George Hincapie (USA)
                                      60 David Zabriskie (USA)
 
Fassa Bortolo                         Palmans-Collstrop
 
61 Fabian Cancellara (Swi)            71 Bert Roesems (Bel)
62 Nicola Loda (Ita)                  72 Michel Van Haecke (Bel)
64 Mauro Facci (Ita)                  73 Fabian De Waele (Bel)
65 Tadej Valjavec (Slo)               74 Björn Leukemans (Bel)
66 Francesco Chicchi (Ita)            75 Geert Omloop (Bel)
67 Gorazd Stangelj (Slo)              76 Erwin Thijs (Bel)
68 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe)          77 Roger Hammond (GBr)
69 Juan De Los Angeles Segui (Spa)    79 Thierry De Groote (Bel)
 
Marlux-Wincor Nixdorf                 Team Telekom
 
81 Dave Bruylandts (Bel)              91 Mario Aerts (Bel)
82 Andy Cappelle (Bel)                92 Kai Hundertmarck (Ger)
83 Geert Verheyen (Bel)               93 Matthias Kessler (Ger)
84 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat)          97 Stephan Schreck (Ger)
85 Johan Dekkers (Bel)                98 Stefan Schumacher (Ger)
86 Dimitri Konyshev (Rus)             99 Jan Schaffrath (Ger)
87 Saulius Ruskys (Ltu)
88 Jean-Michel Tessier (Fra)
 
Brioches La Boulangere                Jean Delatour
 
101 Sébastien Chavanel (Fra)          111 Bruno Thibout (Fra)
102 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra)            113 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra)
103 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra)            115 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr)
104 Christophe Kern (Fra)             116 Ludovic Martin (Fra)
105 Damien Nazon (Fra)                117 David Lefevre (Fra)
                                      119 Christophe Laurent (Fra)
                                      120 Eddy Seigneur (Fra)
 
Vlaanderen-T Interim                  Rabobank
 
121 Matthew Gilmore (Bel)             131 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned)
122 Stijn Devolder (Bel)              132 Robert Bartko (Ger)
123 Jan Kuyckx (Bel)                  134 Mathew Hayman (Aus)
124 Wouter Van Mechelen (Bel)         135 Ronald Mutsaars (Ned)
125 Jehudi Schoonacker (Bel)          136 Roy Sentjens (Ned)
126 Geoffrey Demeyere (Bel)           138 Kevin De Weert (Bel)
127 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel)         139 Karsten Kroon (Ned)
128 James Vanlandschoot (Bel)         140 Thorwald Veneberg (Ned)
 
Flanders-Iteamnova
 
141 Bjorn Cornelissen (Ned)
142 Scott Guyton (NZl)
145 Jurgen Landrie (Bel)
146 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel)
147 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel)
149 Thierry Masschelein (Bel)
150 Manuel Toldo (Ita)

Past winners

2002 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Bankgiroloterij-Batavus